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POMEROY–David Ruark, Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum (EWAM), said they are still considering holding a Spring Farming Days event during the weekend of April 2-4. He also said the group has been given some new donations to the museum that will be picked up as weather allows. A Spring Jackpot show at the fairgrounds with a tentative date set for April 10 is being planned. Due to COVID restrictions there will not be any camping or food available at the show. Board president Sara Lunsford s...
New box store CLARKSTON–US Foods is opening a new box store, CHEF’STORE at 810 Port Drive in Clarkston, Wash. CHEF’STORE will provide a convenient local shopping option for product and supply necessities. It will be open to the public seven days a week and no membership is required. State income tax being pushed by Democrats By Sen. Mark Schoesler OLYMPIA–Senate Bill 5096 which would create a state income tax has passed the Senate Ways and Means Committee is most likely to come up for a full Senate vote. If the SB5096 is approved by the Legisla...
WASHINGTON D.C.–Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) invites students from Washington’s Fifth Congressional District to participate in the 2021 Congressional Art Competition. Students grade 7-12 are encouraged to submit various styles and types of art, ranging from paintings and drawings to photography and mixed media pieces. Students should submit a typed copy of the 2021 Student Release Form signed by the teacher, a parent or guardian, and the student, and securely attached to the back of the artwork to certify the...
STARBUCK–Columbia Pulp LLC will fully re-start the Lyons Ferry Pulp Plant in Columbia County sometime in early May, 2021. It was due to COVID–19 concerns in April, 2020, that the plant shutdown, leaving only essential personnel to continued support of the facility. Even though there has been a prolonged shutdown, the company has worked to obtain additional funding to perform modifications to the plant aimed at increasing production. The company plans to re-commission the plant as well as imp...
Ways and Means rams through bill creating state income tax By Sen. Mark Schoesler OLYMPIA–The Ways and Means passed Senate Bill 5096 on February 16, 2021, the Democrat-sponsored proposal requested by Gov. Jay Inslee that would create a state income tax on capital gains. All but one Democrat on the committee voted for it, while all Republicans voted no. Another attempt to breach Snake River dams By Sen. Mark Schoesler OLYMPIA–Another attempt to breach four Snake River dams has been proposed by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho. He wants to try...
POMEROY–Garfield County has four active cases of COVID-19, Martha Lanman, Garfield County Health District Administrator, informed the County Commissioners (BOCC) at the February 22 meeting, and the vaccine clinic will be open this Friday. Direct contacts of those who tested positive for the coronavirus are being traced, Lanman added. More vaccines have been shipped, so the Friday Vaccine Clinic will be open this coming Friday for second dose injections, she said. Lanman told the BOCC that many residents in the area are unaware of the ability to...
POMEROY–New Quality Behavioral Health and the Pomeroy Partners coalition Youth & Family Coordinator Melody Darby takes the wheel on March 1, 2021. Over the 18 years in law enforcement, 911, and public education, Darby steps into the Pomeroy Partners Youth & Family Coordinator position. She began her involvement with the community as a Garfield County Sheriff's Office 911 dispatcher, and later the 911 Pubic Educator, teaching kids about how and when to call 911. She also participated in the p...
POMEROY–The Port of Garfield County will complete its fiber-to-the-home project this month, capping a decade-long effort to bring high-speed internet here. Soon, nearly 700 homes and businesses in the immediate area will have high-speed fiber service available. "Bringing broadband to Garfield County has been in our Comprehensive Plan for more than 10 years," said Port Manager Diana Ruchert. "Our partners at CERB and Garfield County allowed us to finally bring that vision to life, and we are extr...
POMEROY–The annual Forest Owners’ Winter School hosted online by Washington State University Extension Forestry and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources offers free zoom classes February 27, 2021, at 9 a.m.–3 p.m. To register visit http://forestry.wsu.edu/webinars/onlinews/ or call 425-357-6023. Pre-registration is required by February 26 at 5 p.m. The weekend workshop gives landowners large and small a chance to learn about forestry, forest health, wildfire risks, and more. The zoom classes have something for all skill level...
Correction POMEROY–Corrections to the East Washingtonian February 18, 2021 edition City Council artical are: “the matching funds are being provided by the “Blue Mountain Community Foundation”, not the Blue Mountain Action Council, and the funding at the cemetery is provided by the Harold and Helen Shepherd Foundation, not Gary Houser....
GARFIELD COUNTY–The State, Governor Jay Inslee, approved the East Region, to move to Phase 2 of the Washington State Road Map to Recovery February 12, 2021, which includes the Pomeroy area. The move into this new phase will begin Monday, February 15 and last for two weeks when the region's metrics will be reassessed. According to Garfield County Health District Administrator Martha Lanman, if the region doesn't continue to improve or hold the required subset numbers, the region will return to P...
POMEROY–The City Council was informed several community entities were working on a letter to Governor Inslee regarding moving the county into Phase 2 of the Washington State Toad Map to Recovery and the status of counties in southeastern Washington. Council expressed the opinion that “one size does not fit all,” and “no way can we be included with Spokane.” Cassetto asked County Commissioner Larry Ledgerwood, guest, if Asotin County was going to be with Garfield County on this issue. Ledgerwood confirmed the letter will be signed by the count...
POMEROY––Findings on a State Audit that is in process were answered with additional information provided by Garfield County Fire District No. 1 in the weeks since the January meeting, Commissioners Terry John, Gary Bowles and Aaron Stallcop heard at the February 9 regular meeting. District Secretary Deedee Weymouth said she was able to find the information pertaining to the missing paperwork for the inappropriately established Revolving Fund. Auditors had questioned the Revolving Fund, which had been set up at US Bank by former chief Kris Dar...
POMEROY–Garfield County Sheriff's Office took into custody a male suspect, Tristan Charles Evans, 23, who was booked for Assault in the 1st degree, a class A felony, on February 4, 2021. Law enforcement personnel from the Garfield County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of an assault in the city of Pomeroy early Thursday morning, February 4. An unidentified male victim in his 40s was transported to the Garfield County Hospital District by emergency medical technicians from Garfield County Fire District No. 1. The victim was later t...
TOPEKA, Kan.–Pursuit of Excellence award recipient Annalynne (Van Vogt) Gonzales, graduated from Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a Masters in Nurse of Anesthesia (CRNA) on November 23,2020. Gonzales, graduated from Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a Masters in Nurse of Anesthesia (CRNA) and was honored with the Pursuit of Excellence award, a staff-nominated honor, at graduation. She successfully passed her board certification in December and has recently s...
By Charlotte Baker POMEROY–The East Region remains in Phase 1 of which Garfield County is collectively a part. The numbers for the area are apparently not within the parameters of Phase 2 requirements. The numbers here, are 668 COVID-19 tests given of which 557 were negative as of February 4, 2021 at 1 p.m. There have been 12 hospitalizations with four deaths. Presently, six positive COVID patients are recovering with no pending tests and 101 positive cases have fully recovered. Vaccines have been given to well over 200 people in the B1–65 yea...
POMEROY–Captain America, a.k.a. Allen Mullins, passed through this fair little town Tuesday afternoon, January 26, on a walk to benefit military veteran Gary Jorgens. Captain America had recently been in Pullman and Clarkston, and was heading west on Highway 12. Mullins is from Dalton, Ga., and according to information on his facebook page, he "began walking for veterans in 2009, giving up his job as a house framer. He was inspired to reach out to military veterans when he realized that many v...
USDA appoint key senior staff WASHINGTON D.C.—The following individuals will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C. Senior Program Officer focusing on nutrition at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anne Knapke was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations. Liz Archuleta was named Director in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Archuleta served as a County Supervisor for Coconino County, Arizona, where she was the first Latina ever elected to that office in Coconino County. Staff Director for the S...
Garfield County Superior Court–Judge Tom Cox: January 6, 2021 Shanice Bonaparte, of Lewiston, pleaded guilty to felony Possession of Methamphetamine. Bonaparte was sentenced to: 90 days jail; $500 in legal financial obligations; as well as 12 months of Dept. of Corrections Community Custody. Garfield County District Court–Judge Tom Cox December 9, 2020 Gilbert Niebel, of Pomeroy, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offenses of Trespassing as well as Trespass While Hunting. Niebel was fined $59...
POMEROY–The first day for the vaccine clinic, which was held at the Dick Brown building on January 29, 2021, started at 8 a.m., and was moving along smoothly with 100 of the scheduled 230 doses already administered before 12 p.m. for the B1 group (65+ or multigenerational households). Many people who placed their names on the "list" were scheduled, making it possible to vaccinate eight people every fifteen minutes. This all happened with the help from a sub-committee, health, fire, sheriff d...
POMEROY––A Senate bill under consideration in Olympia could further erode revenue Garfield County receives from people caught committing criminal activities, Commissioners heard at the February 1 meeting. District Court Clerk Katie Magill brought to the Commissioners' attention Senate Bill 5226, which would relax rules and fines for license suspension for failure to pay or failure to appear citations. "Currently, if a person has a moving violation, and they don't pay, we can put a hold on the...
Dye house bill to ensure reliability and reduce consumer power costs OLMPIA–House bill 1130 authored by Rep. Mary Dye, (R-9) known as the Real Solutions for Consumer Affordability and Reliable Energy Supply (CARES), seeks to reduce electrical and natural gas costs to all Washington consumers by 50% and reduce all power outages in Washington State by 50% by the year 2030, was heard in the House Environment and Energy Committee. Pomeroy Partners Programs in the Community LifeSkills for Middle School POMEROY–Jessica Nelson at the Garfield County H...
POMEROY–The Blue Mountain Artisan Guild is closed until March after receiving a generous grant from the Shepherd Foundation to purchase the building to the west of the existing gallery. In addition, the BMAG was recently awarded additional grants from Southeast Washington Economic Development Association (SEWEDA), Innovia, Inland Power, Blue Mountain Community Foundation (BMCF). The BMAG gallery will be closed through February and reopen March 1, while changes to the new building are made to house the gallery. The original building will be u...
POMEROY–Founder of "Ruck for the Fallen," First Sergeant Mitch Kriebel, passed through here on part of a week-long, 150-mile walk-or ruck, in military terms-from Lewiston to Benton City, Wash., Tuesday, January 19. This ruck is to raise funds for families of first-responders, active military members or veterans who were killed in the line of duty, or those who are experiencing physical, mental or emotional difficulties caused by the risks they face daily. "Ruck for the Fallen," is an o...